2 Arrested After Car on Fire Rams Glasgow Terminal

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June 30: Flames rise from a jeep after it crashed into the main terminal at Glasgow airport in Scotland.

 

GLASGOW, Scotland - A Jeep Cherokee trailing a cascade of flames rammed into Glasgow airport on Saturday, shattering glass doors just yards from passengers lined up at the check-in counters. Police said they believed the attack was linked to two car bombs found in London the day before.

Britain raised its terror alert to “critical” — the highest possible level — and the Bush administration announced plans to increase security at airports and on mass transit.

One of the men in the car was in critical condition at a hospital with severe burns, while the other was in police custody, said Scottish Police Chief Constable Willie Rae. He said a “suspect device” was found on the suspect at the hospital and it was taken to a safe location where it was being investigated.

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Brown: ‘Be United, Resolute And Strong’

The Government has warned of “imminent” terrorist attacks after a Jeep was rammed into Glasgow airport and burst into flames.

The UK is now on “critical” alert - its highest terror threat level.

Police say the attack is linked to the two car bombs that were found in the heart of London.

It has also been revealed that one of the two suspects arrested in Scotland was wearing a “suspicious device”. Officers would not say whether it was a suicide belt.

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New York Takes Precautions After London Bomb

 

A heavily armed member of the New York Police Department patrols Times Square, Friday. New York strengthened its already-tight security as a precaution after police in London’s bustling nightclub and theater district on Friday defused a bomb that could have killed hundreds. (AP)

 

NEW YORK — New York police took unspecified precautions on Friday after explosives experts in London defused a car bomb packed with gasoline, gas and nails, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

“We’ll take a little bit of extra precaution,” Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show on WABC. “We’re going to ramp up a little bit, not dramatically. Some you will notice, some you will not.”

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Fred Thompson Envisions ‘New Coalition’

A day after pitching his conservative credentials down South, likely presidential hopeful Fred Thompson took a broader approach Thursday in his first trip to New Hampshire.

The actor and former Tennessee senator said the United States will again become a “beacon of inspiration” to the rest of the world if it returns to the core principles on which it was founded.

“I think we can form a new coalition of Republicans and independents and some Democrats,” he said at a fundraiser for Republican state senators.

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Saddam Tried to Build Nuclear ICBM

UNITED NATIONS — In a wide-ranging compendium on Saddam Hussein’s secret weapons programs, the U.N. Monitoring, Observation, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) reveals that in late 1989, Saddam’s military launched a modified Scud missile that could have carried a nuclear warhead.

In a document released on Thursday, UNMOVIC states:

“In its only test flight on Dec. 5, 1989, the Al Abid space launch vehicle flew for about 45 seconds before encountering (an unidentified) problem. This space launch vehicle consisting of five Scud engines for its first stage had the potential to deliver a payload, including nuclear, to an intercontinental range.”

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Two Bombs Were Set To Blow In London

Police have confirmed that not one, but two massive car bombs were set to explode in the heart of London’s West End.

The first car, in Haymarket, was a metallic green Mercedes packed with petrol, gas cannisters and nails, and was defused after police were alerted by an ambulance crew called to an incident at a nearby nightclub in the early hours of Friday morning.

The second bomb was in a car that was illegally parked nearby and towed to the Park Lane car pound.

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Congress Votes for $4,400 Pay Raise

Despite low approval ratings and hard feelings from last year’s elections, Democrats and Republicans in the House are reaching out for an approximately $4,400 pay raise that would increase their salaries to almost $170,000.

The cost-of-living raise endorsed Wednesday evening gets lawmakers back on track for automatic pay raises after a fight between the parties last year and again in January killed the pay increase due this year. That was the first interruption of the annual congressional pay boost in seven years.

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Special Operations Forces Switch Terror Fight Tactics

TAMPA, Fla. — So long, Rambo.

Almost six years after the worst attack ever on U.S. soil, special operations commanders believe that simply killing terrorists will not win a war against an ideologically motivated enemy.

That view is reflected in a series of transitions in special operations leadership posts. New senior officers are expected to give greater weight to an indirect approach to warfare, a slow and disciplined process that calls for supporting groups or nations willing to back U.S. interests.

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Furious Ann Coulter Strikes Back

An obviously angry Ann Coulter this morning ripped into critics who deliberately distorted her comments about former Senator and presidential hopeful John Edwards.

After a relentless 24-hour firestorm during which much of the mainstream media used selective quotes to mangle the meaning of several of Ann’s comments about Edwards, Coulter set the record straight while talking with Joe Scarborough host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program.

Coulter told Scarborough: “I’ve never seen people avoid ideas so much in such an obvious way and try to alert Americans not to read anything, not to listen to something someone said – not because of what someone is saying, but to try to portray her as a Nazi. This happens every time I put a book out and I’m getting a little bored with it . . .”

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